---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOPS: Lowers the ACT score required for initial qualification for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award for students who complete approved home study programs (EN +$172,184 SG EX See Note)"
description: "TOPS: Lowers the ACT score required for initial qualification for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award for students who complete approved home study programs (EN +$172,184 SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 378"
citation: "Louisiana HB 378 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roger Wilder III"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca5cfb68-4f35-4317-8333-ae8964be22a5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248365"
source_hash: "e62cae0dfb3214d9bf8973f93b3e1dbe720f0bc8f59f69cbb5cda4ffde55cbe6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 378 (2025) — TOPS: Lowers the ACT score required for initial qualification for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award for students who complete approved home study programs (EN +$172,184 SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB378 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403020)
2. **HB378 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425966)
3. **HB378 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407512)
4. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3147, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423299)
5. **HB378 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424271)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#783) — **17–0** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1121) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#782) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#650) — **89–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roger Wilder III — primary (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Geymann — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 359. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Notice given.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably (8-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca5cfb68-4f35-4317-8333-ae8964be22a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).